From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 5 6: 6: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (sydney.worldwide.lemis.com [192.109.197.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF91F37B69E; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 06:05:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id HAA31676; Sat, 5 Aug 2000 07:57:38 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 07:57:38 +1000 From: Greg Lehey To: Nik Clayton Cc: "Henry F. Marquardt" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Jason Kasper Subject: Re: Irda support Message-ID: <20000805075738.A31658@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com> References: <2969.965271549@localhost> <20000803235930.A75765@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000803235930.A75765@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 11:59:30PM +0100 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 3 August 2000 at 23:59:30 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:18:12PM -0500, Henry F. Marquardt wrote: >> I agree, this is a 'lost' technology, a solution in search of a problem. >> Even the palm crowd doesn't use it much that I've seen - I remember some of >> the early marketing hype there with people swapping IR business cards - I >> don't think I've ever seen anyone do that > > Do it all the time. Not only you. Many people I know, myself included, do this. >> and I don't think I could figure out how in any reasonable amount >> of time with mine - it'd be quicker to scribble on a napkin. > > Being able to sync my Palm pilot with my Vaio using IR would be *very* nice. > One less set of cables to have to carry around with me. Agreed, modulo laptop model. >> Same with my laptop, it was configured as com2 and as far as I was >> concerned just taking up IRQ space - I turned it off when I put >> FBSD on there. Doesn't mean you should play with it, but what are >> you going to *use* it for? > > There are a bunch of mobile phones out here with built in modems. > Point the phone at the computer and suddenly (in Windows) you've got > a modem attached to COM2 (or whatever) -- again, without needing the > additional cabling. This is a good thing. Again, agreed. My mobile phone has this facility, and it's the *only* way I can use the modem. I understand that Linux supports this functionality, and for me it's enough reason to install Linux on the box. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message